FOOL N FINAL : Snatched, Weird but Wacky
There’s something darling about FnF that makes you laugh all throughout. Sometimes hard, at times a smile or otherwise you pass on the joke with a blank look.
A hash of “Snatch” this gets so trash, that in some weird way it produces plenty of moments that having you laughing your ass off. Was it the alcohol that I was consuming while watching this? Or was it a news that lightened up my day, that made me like many a moment in this movie, I have no idea what it was… but at the end of the movie, the list of stupidities, plot holes, unforgivable errors and above all a shot to shot copy of most of “Snatch” still did not deter me from letting out a smile.
Confused over how this could happen… I have yet to find the answer. Perhaps when the intensity of trash crosses a certain barrier the crap becomes gold or perhaps gold plated.
First off, someone needs to find the Subtitling guy of this movie, bend him/her over and spank his/her ass till they cry, plead, beg and promise that they will immediately join a “Basic English Certification” course.
Examples that led me to force this action:
Hindi: Mujhe chod do
Subtitle: Lav me
Subtitle: Laev me
I’m still searching for Lav and Laev in my Oxford dictionary. Regret to tell you that… I’m still looking.
Hindi: Mera Bhanja hain
Subtitle: He’s my niece
The team of FnF seem to have given up gender identity and have truly merge a male and a female into one. I should henceforth start calling my nephew, nieces and my nieces as nephews. Perhaps I should take this a step further and start calling my Mom as Dad and my Dad as Mom.
Or maybe start calling the director Ahmed Khan as Hasina Khan and the producer Firoz Nadiadwala as Dilshad Nadiadwala… truly following the wonderful principles laid forth by the Subtitler of FnF
Hindi: Saap aur Nevle ki ladai mein…
Subtitle: In the fight between snake and nevla
Perhaps the page in the subtitler’s dictionary which carried the word “mongoose” had been torn, missing or the word “mongoose” was too hard a word to spell out and the subtitler thought perhaps “nevla” is an easy word to type out.
Really… when millions and millions of bucks are being spent on FnF, was it that hard to find a good subtitling coordinator?
Coming to the direction, Ahmed Khan has a penchant for wacky scenes or perhaps turning up the wackiness in a few scenes that really inspired him from the original. Yet, he isn’t a director that can go far. One of the many problems I had with FnF that Ahmed Khan took out the “realism” present in “Snatch”… scenes like the gypsy homes, the streets of London, the don’s pig shed etc.
Instead villains in this snatched version drink martinis off hotel roof tops, extras look like they are waiting to do whatever they have to do, actors wait to blurt out their lines while car crashes and chases look like Bollywood choreographed dance moves than car chases that we are so used to seeing in the raw and rough.
Characters are bumped in and bumped out as if it is a Merry Go Round and no reason or explanation needs to be given or who, what, when, where and how. So in the end when Sunny paji and Sameera ben are still single, they are put together and coupled up. WTF?
How then could one like this movie?
The adrenaline runs purely on the actors shoulders, who for some strange reason just avoid from going overboard or hamming it up (which though does happen a few times).
Vivek Oberoi, whenever IS NOT TAKING himself too seriously, always ends up giving a sincere, decent performance. This is one of those fairly better ones. Ditto to Shahid, who has been known to literally choke the comedy out of a genuinely funny line, but here he rarely does that and seems to be getting more at ease with his comic timing.
Sunny well, doesn’t have much to do except the usual… smile, grim, groan and punch.
It’s the lesser actors that deliver in here. Asrani, Gulshan and Chunky Pandey. Though Chunky oscillates between geniunely funny and wierd funny, this is an area he has to attack in his career with hammer and tongs. After the Gurkha role in Apna Sapna Money Money, where he just knocked the pants off with his wacky comedy, it needs no further research what this guy who seems to have finally found his bearings, needs to do.
Paresh Rawal does it coolly and well. But recently it seems to be that deep down he’s pain bored of what he is doing or atleast what he’s being offered to do. The sparks and energy are diminishing with each passing movie.
The piece of the cake though goes to Johnny Lever, who in many critics’ books is just a plain ham.
Disagree. The tremendous use of his entire body along with his clockwork eyeballs has you choking on your drink each time he appears on the scene. Watch his scenes where Grover in hallway demands to know who the guys are and the four actors dressed as superheroes suddenly take up poses with Johnny posing as Spiderman. The perfect timing to deliver the pose with his face and body expressions will knock one off the chair (be careful not to “expect”).
Here is one comedian who seems to have the entire A to Z knowledge of the funny, yet will never be recognized at a College of Comedy. It’s due to the efforts of Johnny and such character actors that FnF may succeed to grip you for sometime. Tragically these kinds of efforts may never be recognized.
C Plus. This one may just surprise you in spite of its tall list of holes. Having zero expectations is highly recommended before watching this one.
